Dr. Judy Chu was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 32nd District in July 2009. She immediately got to work representing the interests of her constituents, voting on several environmental bills and working through the night on her first day in office, during a marathon debate on important healthcare reform legislation as part of her first assignment on the House Education and Labor Committee, where she served on the Subcommittees on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education and Healthy Families and Communities.

Steven Chu recently returned to Stanford University as the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology in the medical school.

From January 2009 until April 2013, Chu served as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy during President Obama's administration. Prior to his Cabinet post, he was the Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Professor of Physics and of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Previous to those posts, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories. During Chu’s time in the Obama cabinet, the DOE had an annual budget of approximately $26 billion and was entrusted an additional $36 B through the Recovery Act. Under his leadership, DOE began ARPA-E, the Energy Innovation Hubs, the Clean Energy Ministerial and helped double the deployment of renewable energy in the U.S.

Timothy C. Draper is the Founder Partner of DFJ. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim currently serves on the boards of DoAt, Glam, Prosper, and Miartech. DFJ's previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and hundreds of others.

Ira Ehrenpreis is a recognized leader in both the venture capital industry and the energy innovation sector. In 2007, Ira was named one of the “Top 50 Most Influential Men Under 45" and in 2014 was inducted into the International Green Industry Hall of Fame. For many years, Ira has led Technology Partners’ venture practice investing in energy innovation opportunities.

Mr Kung has lived in Southern Bay Area for 30 years with his family.
Mr Kung holds the bachelor degree of mechanical engineering from National Cheng Kung University; master degree of ME from University of Texas Austin; PhD of ME from University of California Berkeley. In addition, he earned MBA from Santa Clara University.

On March 9, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Gary Locke to be the 10th Ambassador of the United States of America to the People’s Republic of China. He was confirmed by the Senate on July 27, 2011 and was sworn in on August 1, 2011. He assumed duty as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the People's Republic of China on August 13, 2011.

Bertrand leads the charge at App Annie. He is a technology entrepreneur with 15 years of executive experience in the mobile, Internet and analytics space across Europe, US and Asia. Previously, he was VP Mobile for Gomez (web analytics) acquired in 2009 by Compuware for $295M, and before that he was COO and VP Marketing at Zandan (mobile analytics) acquired by Keynote Systems. Bertrand also held management and founder roles at Neocom Multimedia and Arkadia Netsystems. Bertrand holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a Master in Computer Science from ISEP, France. Outside of running tech companies, Bertrand is usually found trying out the latest gadgets and reading on his tablet.

Vaughan Smith is VP, Corporate Development at Facebook, focused on strategic projects. He was previously VP Corporate Development responsible for Acquisitions, Business Development & Mobile Partnerships. Before joining Facebook in 2008, Dr Smith was EVP Corporate Development at Move with responsibility for Strategy, M&A, Online Marketing, Analytics & Partnerships. Prior to joining Move, he was VP Corporate Development at eBay and CEO LiquidWit. Dr Smith has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Canterbury University.

Steve is the Founder of the Westly Group which is one of the nation’s largest clean tech and sustainability venture capital funds. The firm has had four of its portfolio companies go public on Nasdaq including Tesla Motors. Prior to that, Steve served as the Controller and Chief Fiscal Officer of the state of California – the world’s eighth largest economy. As Controller, he chaired the State Lands Commission and served on 63 other boards and commissions, including CalPERS and CalSTRS, which together invest more than $350 billion. During his four-year term, Steve helped lead the effort to commit more than $1 billion to clean technology investments.

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years, Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. The following year, he introduced his Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive. The Apple II was integral in launching the personal computer industry.

Mr Xiao Joined The Perfect World in 2008 as Vice President, responsible for Human Resource and General Management. In March 2012, The Perfect World released a report to nominate Mr. Xiao as Chief Executive Officer. He gained BA of Physics from Tsinghua University in 1989, in 1991 and 1995, he earned Master and PhD degree of Engineering from University of Sothern California. From 2000 to 2008, he has worked at Cisco, Phillips and Dell.

Mr. Adelman’s career path has not been a straight one. He isthe Co-Founder and CEO of Mighty Cast, the company behind The NEX Bandand its patent-pending base and token technology. The goal of The NEX Band is to disrupt the wearable space and give power to the consumer to customize their smart band both on the inside and out through the company's NEX collectible
"Mods". Founded in 2012, the company was recently awarded the Canada Media Fund’s (CMF) highest monetary award, Engadget’s 2013 Reader’s Choice Award, and was a 2014 SXSW Finalist in the Accelerator Wearable Technology Competition. The company has appeared in CNET, CBS, Mobile Syrup,Gamasutra, The Verge, among others.

Pepe Agell leads Chartboost’s worldwide expansion efforts. In this role, he oversees the company’s publisher base and strategic partnerships, to ensure the highest standard of service and support is provided to Chartboost’s customers around the world.

In addition, Agell channels feedback and interaction with the company’s worldwide publishers to inform development of the company’s leading Direct Deal Marketplace. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the UPC Barcelona and the ETH Zurich. Prior to joining Chartboost, Agell led product management and operations teams in both multinational (Hilti AG) and startups (3scale and Innovalley).

Ralph Barbagallo is a veteran game developer, writer, speaker, and donut enthusiast. After years in console and PC games, Ralph founded FLARB in 2001 as one of the earliest developers of mobile games in the West. Today Ralph is building next generation experiences for wearable platforms using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality technologies. He is connecting this research with toys via his “Ether Drift” interactive figurine project--combining 3D printing, physical manufacturing, and games to create experiences that blur the line between reality and virtual worlds.

Mark Belinsky is the CEO and co-founder of Birdi. He’s developed projects in over 26 countries, with previous work including building security technologies with Guardian Project and leading the development of Peter Gabriel's new project at the intersection of technology and social good, The Toolbox. He co-founded Digital Democracy and has appeared as a guest on BBC, Al-Jazeera, and NPR, testified at US Congress and consulted with numerous heads of state.

Vatsal Bhardwaj is a general manager at Storm8, where he drives strategy, product development and live operations. Storm8 has more than 10 million daily active users and 600 million downloads across 200 million devices worldwide. Prior to Storm8, Vatsal worked in corporate strategy at Zynga, leading several new initiatives in mobile and international growth. Prior to that, he held product roles at Microsoft (SkyDrive, Wireless devices) and Cooliris (Mobile Photo Sharing). Vatsal has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Duke University. He is an author of three patents in operating systems.

Mr. Chan, Managing Director, has over 16 years of technology lending experience. He joined East West Bank in 2006 as the Founding Manager for the Bank’s Technology Banking Group. Under his leadership and the Bank’s “Bridge Capabilities” in offering cross border financing, Mr. Chan has successfully built a well diversified technology loan portfolio from ground zero with profitability achievement at the first year of operations. By applying his extensive knowledge of the emerging technology industry, venture capital, corporate finance, due diligence and banking industries, he has provided more than $350 million in debt financing to over 70 hi-tech companies over the past seven years with East West Bank.

Dr. Alan Chen has been with Perfect World since 2008, assuming the role of Chief Publishing Officer in North America and Europe. Alan established the company’s North American and European subsidiaries, Perfect World Entertainment Inc. and Perfect World Europe B.V., in 2008 and 2010 respectively and assumed CEO of these two subsidiaries since then. The two subsidiaries started with publishing MMO games and then evolving to provide western style games by acquiring game development studios in North America and Europe. Prior to joining Perfect World, Dr. Chen had held a number of executive positions in the industries of computer gaming, IT, and telecommunications, and accumulated valuable experience in product marketing, operations, and professional services. From 2006 to 2007, Dr. Chen was the CTO of The9 Ltd. Prior to that, Mr. Chen had assumed roles including EVP of Hewlett-Packard China, responsible for the Enterprise Server and Storage business; VP of Professional Services of Lucent Technologies China; and GM of Carrier Packet Solutions at Nortel Networks. Mr. Chen received both his B.Eng and M.Eng. degrees from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Ottawa.

Aiguo Chen, male, Han nationality, born September 18, 1958, joined workforce in July 1976 and graduated from Zhengzhou University December 1981. He now serves as Professor of Henan Finance & Taxation College, Dean of the Department of Business Administration, and member in the University Academic Committee.

David Chen is the President of Pactera based in Beijing, Chain with offices in America, Europe and Asia Pacific, one of the largest China-based IT service firms. David was the Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of VanceInfo before VanceInfo and hiSoft merging as Pactera. David has held many leadership roles in large enterprise companies such as IBM/Crossworlds, KPMG Strategic Consulting Group, and Oracle. David is an active angel investor in early stage startup including Wingz.

Alan Chiu is a Partner at XSeed Capital, with a strong background in enterprise software and data storage.

Alan’s investment areas include mobile enterprise applications, next-generation data center stack, data analytics platforms and applications, as well as behavior-shaping technologies. He serves on the Board of Directors of StackStorm, and has supported other portfolio companies including Lex Machina, Pixlee, Playnomics, SIPX and Zooz.

Verliant is a leading waste-to-bioenergy project developer in North America, using proprietary mechanical and enzymatic technologies to convert municipal trash and agricultural waste into clean energy, water and recyclable resources.

Dr. Peter Y. Chiu has been an Adjunct Clinical Faculty member of the Stanford University School of Medicine since 1987 and an Adjunct Clinical Professor since 2009. He was appointed by Governor Brown to serve on the California State Board of Behavioral Science since 2013 and has also served as a Hearing Board member of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District since 2013. He was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a member of the US Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management for environmental protection from 1994 to 1997. He was an Occupational Medicine Department and Emergency Department physician at Kaiser Milpitas/Santa Clara from 1990 to 2012, a practicing family physician in San Jose from 1986 to 1990, and resident physician and chief of resident physicians at San Jose Hospital from 1983 to 1986. He also served as principal environmental engineer for the Association of Bay Area Governments from 1976 to 1979 and associate water quality management engineer at the Bay Area Sewage Services Agency from 1974 to 1976. He earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Stanford University, Doctor of Public Health degree in Environment Health, Master of Public Health degree in Occupational Health, and Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering all from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jeff C. Dodd has extensive experience in a variety of domestic and international intellectual property and information transactions. He represents clients in the planning, design and implementation of electronic commerce strategies and arrangements, domestic and international (including those relating to business-to-business exchanges, co-branding, hosting, development, and other similar activities), electronic data interchange arrangements, and electronic trading transactions and activities. Jeff counsels as to intellectual property commercialization and exploitation strategies, structures, negotiates and documents technology acquisition, transfer and commercialization transactions, and represents clients in registering, enforcing and licensing intellectual property rights with respect to diverse technologies. Jeff also has experience in diverse domestic and international corporate transactions, including representing issuers and underwriters (and investment bankers) in connection with public and private securities offerings (including IPOs and secondary offerings).

Kingsley Edwards is the founder of Leetcoin and the Las Vegas Bitcoin Meetup. His background is in health and wealth management. Currently, he is helping pave the way for gamers to adopt cryptocurrencies.

Once a rocker with long hair, Rom is a serial entrepreneur, now with little hair but still loves his guitar. Rom has spent the last decade building innovative startups in both social and the IoT space. Currently founder and CEO at CA7CH where together with his team, they are re-defining the traditional camera as a connected, wearable device to bring people closer together.

Anush Elangovan is Founder and CEO of Nod Labs whose mission is to create a beautiful way for people to touchlessly and gesturally communicate with the world around them. He worked at Google building Chromebooks before founding Nod Labs. Prior to Google he worked at Agnilux, FireEye and Cisco. Anush has more than 20 patents pending or issued. He loves extreme skiing, mountaineering and long runs with his dog.

Jack Emmert is veteran in internet gaming industry, CEO and Senior Producer of Cryptic Studio. He is the chief designer of City Heros and Champions Online. Jack was nominated as top 5 most influential men in online gaming industry.

Cryptic Studios is a leading developer of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, with a reputation for delivering profitable, on-time and on-budget titles. Cryptic developed the innovative and successful City of Heroes, as well as its subsequent expansion, City of Villains. Both titles garnered numerous awards from leading enthusiast press including GameSpy's Game of the Year award in 2004.

Fu Hao is the founder of Miah Home Supply. Miah has leading the industey for a decade since 2003, generating annual revenue of 200 million. In 2010, Mr. Fu funded Woniugo.com. which is a Home Supply online shopping website. In 2012, he invested in Mobile Game project Wanhuiba. In 2014, Mr. Fu launched Silicon Valley Café.

Arturo is a veteran entrepreneur who has been leading the development of the digital industry in Latin America for over 25 years. Arturo is currently in charge of defining and executing the growth strategy of his latest company, Naranya. For all his acomplishments in the digital industry, Arturo was named by the Wall Street Journal as the "Apostle of the Internet" in LatAm.

Bernard Gifford's research interests include theories of computer-mediated, collaborative learning; the impact of networking and communications technologies on student learning activities and teacher pedagogical practices; the behavior of organizations during periods of rapid technological change; and the changing political economy of U.S. higher education. Current research focuses on how standards-based, computer-mediated learning materials can reduce the achievement gap between mainstream students and students who traditionally have not been well served by conventional classrooms.

Dr. David Harris Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University, Canada, and Director of Research for the macGRID Simulation Network. His research areas include new media and digital cultures, interaction design, and the practices and applications of robotics, virtual worlds and mixed reality environments. He teaches courses in Code and Design, DIY Media, Avatar Virtual Environments and New Media Arts.

Mr.Han is the General Secretary of Mobile Game Entrepreneur Alliance (MGEA), Secretary-General of the Organizing Committee of ChinaJoy, and General Manager of Beijing Howell International Trade Fair Ltd. The Mobile Game Entrepreneur Alliance (MGEA) - initiated and established by leading figures in game industry and well-known mobile game entrepreneurs,as a global high-end alliance, MGEA is committed to building a platform for members’ resources integration, to provide industrial data analysis, project matching, international cooperative program and brand promotion.ChinaJoy is the most prestigious and largest mobile gaming platform in China.As the Secretary-General of ChinaJoy, Mr.Han has been dedicated to build up a bridge and a platform to foster healthy development and encourage exchanges and cooperation of global mobile gaming industry. In 2014, with more than 30 mobile gaming industry leaders and well-known entrepreneurs, he co-founded the Mobile Game Entrepreneur Alliance (MGEA), and has served as the General Secretary.

As the CEO of Lark Technologies, Julia's goal is to make people happier and healthier through digital technology. Named Top 10 Most Innovative CE Companies in the World by Fast Company, lark is a mobile and wireless technology platform company that uses behavior change to personally coach people to feel great.

Mr. Huang is a serial entrepreneur, focusing on the development of hardware. He is an expert of embedded Linux technology. He founded HH Tech in China, which is an platform for Linux application development. After HH Tech, he founded SmartQ, which is the first supplier for tablets in China. SmartQ was awarded the CTIA 2013 Emerging Technology Awards.

Yao Huang
Dean of Institute of Finance, Nanning College for Vocational Technology

Dean of Institute of Finance in Nanning College for Vocational Technology among first 28 national demonstration vocational schools, Mr. Huang is currently the first leading professional in marketing and planning concentration, the only winner for the National Excellence Course, National Excellence Resource Sharing Course in the Marketing Degrees in universities in Guangxi Province.

Mr. Huang has served as the Former Deputy Director of Science and Technology Department in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Guangxi branch, Vice President of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Liuzhou Branch, and Personnel Director. He has also served as Secretary-General in China Marketing Professional Curriculum Standards Development Center in Guangxi sub-center, Vice President of the Urban Development Research Association, Vice President of Guangxi SME Association, Executive Director of Guangxi Association of Creative Industry, Executive Vice President of Nanning City Marketing Association.

Mr. Ji Yuguang was appointed as the Deputy General Manager of Haitong Securities since 1997, responsible for the management of international strategy and business development of Haitong Securities. At the same time, he serves as Chairman of the Board of Haitong International Securities (0665.HK) since March 2001. Mr. Ji Yuguang has a wealth of management experience in a number of areas, such as investment banking, securities brokerage, derivatives, fixed income, finance and accounting, and asset management.

VP of 360 Mobile Game Dept.Brain joined 360 in 2013 and devote to operating mobile game distribution channel. He is not only a master in mobile game platform operating, but also a pioneer on creative methods promoting mobile games. Together with his team, Brain once made the miracle of 10 million download in 36 hours for "Plants vs Zombies 2" in China. At the beginning of 2014,he submit the suggestion of " For games of less than 500 thousand gross revenue per month, 360 takes no revenue share within the first 3 months" and got adopted, which brought billions of benefit for developers.

Arun Karamcheti
Head of Partnerships and Business Development, Nod Labs

Arun Karamcheti heads Partnerships and Business Development at Nod Labs, whose mission is to create a beautiful way for people to touchlessly and gesturally communicate with the world around them. Most recently, Arun was the Co-Founder at REEnewal Corporation, a new initiative in the recovery of rare earth elements from electronic waste. Prior to REEnewal, Arun worked at Applied Materials, Novellus, Intermolecular and Photon Dynamics. Arun has a PhD in Materials Science and authored over 30 scientific articles. He loves tennis and watching his two kids grow.

Aiaz Kazi is the Senior Vice President of Products & Innovation Platform Strategy and Adoption at SAP. He is responsible for the platform technology vision, business strategy, platform adoption, and new platform initiatives. His areas of coverage are centered around SAP HANA, SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP HANA Marketplace and across all of SAP's Products and Innovation Platform portfolio including In-Memory technologies, Mobile, Analytics, UX, Integration, and Application Development. He is also focused on driving adoption across a broader ecosystem of startups, strategic ISVs, venture capitalists, incubators, universities, students, and developers.

Andra Keay is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, an industry group supporting the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. Andra is also founder of Robot Launchpad for startups, and cofounder of Robot Garden, a new robotics hackerspace.

Andra is a core contributor to Robohub, the global site for news and views on robotics. She obtained her MA in Human-Robot Culture at the University of Sydney, Australia in 2011, building on a background as a robot geek, STEM educator and film-maker.

Chris C. Kemp is an entrepreneurial executive with a passion for igniting innovation in high-tech organizations. He is the Chief Strategy Officer of Nebula, a company he founded after serving in various roles at NASA. Chris also co-founded the OpenStack project.

In January 2006, Pat rejoined IDG Ventures as a Managing Director after a 20-year career at media giant International Data Group (IDG) where he managed media and venture capital operations. Pat was founder and CEO of IDG's Digital News Publishing subsidiary, Publisher and CEO of PC World Communications subsidiary, and finally CEO of IDG itself overseeing media, market research and event businesses in more than 50 countries. As a publishing executive, Pat has been a tireless champion of new media, and an advocate for the positive effect of information technology on organizations and individuals.

Bryan has more than 20 years of experience in senior business development and management roles at startup and established companies in the technology, software, services and communications sectors. For Electric Imp, he leads efforts to expand the company's innovative Internet connectivity platform into new markets, applications and regions throughout the world.

Jahan leads Sidecar’s technology vision. As a University of Michigan Student, Jahan was the lead programmer on the “Magic Bus Project,” a transit application that tells passengers how long they’ll wait for the next bus. This school project became Shepherd Intelligent Systems, a transportation software company for public transit, taxi, limo, school, and shuttle bus fleets that is still used by the University of Michigan today. In 2011, Jahan, Sunil and Nick came together to create Sidecar. Under Jahan’s leadership, the engineering team has developed a dynamic, intuitive and scalable platform that has matched more than 250,000 shared rides to date.

H. Helene Kim is an International lawyer and management strategy advisor at Lexbridge Advisors San Francisco for top executives of leading US, Korean and Chinese multi-national corporations and start-up technology enterprises on globalization, corporate governance, acquisitions, intellectual property. Helene has significant experience in advising Chinese state-owned enterprises and Korean chaebols on cross-border acquisitions and complex litigation strategy, and practiced law in both San Francisco and Shanghai, China.

Tom Kosnik is a Fenwick and West Consulting Professor, Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), at Stanford School of Engineering. He is an International Advisor for National University of Singapore Entrepreneurship Centre, and a cofounder of Gear Up Ventures, a global partnership that helps entrepreneurs in organizations large and small to create new markets and disrupt existing markets.

Peng Li is principle architect and director of business development for privately held AppEx Networks, a software based network acceleration company. Peng had more than 15 years of experience in computer network industry in Silicon Valley. Previously Peng had worked as senior software engineer for Amber Networks, acquired by NOKIA in 2001 for more than $400m, then worked as technical lead and senior manager for Foundry Networks acquired by Brocade in 2009 for about $3b. Peng hold a master degree in computer engineering from USC and a bachelor degree from Tsinghua University Automation Department. Peng’s current interest is network virtualization, SDN, NVF and Cloud computing.

Alex is the founder and CEO of LVL6, a Y-Combinator backed social mobile gaming company. The studio's first title, “Age of Chaos” has frequented the Top 100 grossing list of the App Store. Previously, Alex also co-founded and served as CEO of G6pay, one of the earliest and leading ad networks on iOS. During his time there, Alex worked with 90% of the top grossing publishers and advertisers on the App Store including Zynga, Groupon, and Storm8.

During his distinguished career, Dan has served global organizations in the public and private sectors in a variety of executive leadership capacities, receiving numerous national awards including: CSO of the Year, Public Official of the Year and Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader.

He joined Haitong Securities in 2008, and is responsible for business development in North America, the Middle East, and Australia. He is also responsible for cross-border financial advisory business in international business department.

Mr. Lu has 4 years of consulting experience in the firm Accenture. He holds an MBA from Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Advanced Finance and a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from University of Toronto.

Tong completed his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University and University of Science & Technology in China, and was awarded his doctorate in Computer Science at Duke University in 2000. With 15+ years of experience with Bell Labs, GTE Labs, CIENA and eBay, he worked on a variety of technologies and consumer products. During this time he had multiple patents filed and issued.

Larry was named to Billboard's Power100: most powerful people in music for 2012. His focus is digital media and consumer services as a Managing Director at Walden Venture Capital, a San Francisco based venture capital firm that targets Sprout Stage investments in the digital media and cloud services industries.

Larry has been a Director at Pandora since early 2004 when Walden led the "rebirth round" to focus the company on launching a consumer-facing service through the IPO. Larry is a Director at SoundHound (sound and voice search), BandPage (online platform to connect fans and bands), Aarki (monitizing mobile), a Board Observer at PowerCloud Systems (cloud OS) and led Walden's investment in Terayon (acquired by Motorola).

Geoff Mathieux is the CEO & Founder of Wingz, a transportation logistics startup based in San Francisco, California. Wingz offers a destination-based transportation network with iOS and Android mobile apps connecting travelers with scheduled door-to-door rides to and from airports. Wingz offers a unique private driver experience with mobile and web access to book airport rides. Riders are guaranteed background-checked drivers at all times. Wingz offers flat rate reliable rides that fit well within any corporate or family travel budget.

Anders Bo Pedersen is a mobile specialist with over a decade of experience in the global telecom industry. He is the founder of successful start-ups and developer behind several award winning app productions. Anders currently holds the role as Mobile Lead & Partner at Danish startup The Eye Tribe where he drives to company’s efforts to bring eye tracking to the mobile mainstream.

Prior to his role at App Annie,Fabien-Pierre Nicolas was General Manager, Mobile at Perfect World, the leading developer and publisher specialized in free to play online multiplayer games with hits like Dungeons & Dragon Neverwinter, Torchlight and Star Trek Online. In his role, he oversees the mobile publishing and content creation operation across the company¹s portfolio of mobile games.

Brad Peters is the Chairman and Chief Product Officer of Birst. Brad spent the last dozen years building analytics products and solutions. Prior to working at Birst, he helped found and later led the Analytics product line at Siebel Systems which forms the basis of Oracle’s current OBIEE product family. Recognizing the limitations of enterprise analytics offerings and the revolutionary power of Cloud technologies, Brad founded Birst in 2005. Brad started his career as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley in the New York M&A practice. Brad regularly blogs for Forbes.com where he writes about Cloud and business software related issues.

Rajani has varied experiences, spanning from running her own companies in India to holding leadership positions in both small and large organizations in the US, with salesforce.com being her most recent position. In her most recent role as COO (EVP) of Technology & Products, her responsibilities spanned from delivering highly innovative products that resulted in a total quality experience for customers, while also ensuring every employee can do the best work of their careers. One of her initiatives to support the growth of the technology and products organization was highlighted in the Harvard Business Review. In 2014, she was awarded the YWCA TWIN (Tribute to Women and Industry) Award, which has long been considered one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious awards, honouring women who exemplify leadership excellence in executive-level positions. Currently she serves as an independant board member at ESI, a pioneer and world-leading player in virtual prototyping that take into account the physics of materials.

Lena is currently developing an education platform where the vision is to offer an experience for educators and students around the world to have constant access to a learning platform that is easy to install, easy to use, and can be customized for different courses. The platform will support both online and offline learning.

Lena is the lead author of: Gear Up. Bring Business Opportunities to Life and Business Creation, published 2013 and Gear Up. Test Your Business Model Potential and Plan Your Path To Success published 2014.

Andrew Scott has twenty years of experience in consumer and business technology marketing, sales enablement, and operations in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., in country, regional and global roles. Before leading marketing at NeuroSky he worked at McCann Worldgroup, and WPP leading multidisciplinary global marketing teams for clients Intel, Microsoft, Applied Materials and IBM. He is a passionate believer in the positive life changing value of biosensors and algorithms enabling smaller, cheaper and higher performing wearable devices that improve people’s lives.

A native of Taiwan, John Shen immigrated to the US in 1980 at an age of 15. Typical of the early 80’s so-called “little overseas student” movement to migrate to America, Shen was the only Chinese American student graduated in a northern Indiana high school before moving on to study at the Indiana University. Shen moved to reside in California in late 1980’s and completed his BS degree in Economics at the San Jose State University.

Max Skibinsky is a serial entrepreneur and technology expert. He moved to Silicon Valley after receiving a degree in Theoretical Physics. Max found and grew Hive7, a social entertainment company that grew to 16 million users. Max was an investor and mentor for many YCombinator and 500 Startup before he joined Andreessen Horowitz in 2013 as an investment partner. He was deeply involved in creating & presenting fund position on Bitcoin.

Anthony is the head of Engineering and Technical Operations at Moz. He enjoys creating SaaS (Software as a Service) applications and large, scalable, distributed systems that enable people and companies to improve their online presence.

Before Moz, Anthony worked in the Healthcare Software field for 10 years as the Director of Engineering for General Electric. Over the last seven years, he spent time growing SaaS companies from the ground up. Most recently, Anthony was the VP of Engineering and Marketing of a digital content SaaS that powered Turntable.fm, Google Music, and MOG. Anthony received degree in Economics with a minor in Computer Science from Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington.

Redg Snodgrass is a hybrid entrepreneur / corporate executive who understands how big companies can partner with and strategically leverage innovative startups. He has been a lean mean branding positioning junky, beating competitors with larger resources and deeper experience most of his career. Unlike most corporate mavericks he's maintained the respect of his colleagues, and works to raise the bar so that everyone shares in the victory, and gets equal praise.

Sebastian Stadil is CEO and Founder of Scalr. He has been a Cloud developer since 2004, starting with web services for e-commerce and then for computational resources. He founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, a user group of over 8000 members that meets monthly to present the latest developments in the industry. As if that weren't enough, Sebastian founded Scalr as an open source project in 2007. Sebastian is a frequent lecturer on cloud computing at Carnegie Mellon University, and sits on the Google Cloud Advisory Board. When he is not working on Scalr, Sebastian likes to make sushi and play rugby.

Edward Tang (CSO and Co-Founder) received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. In addition to being a student, Mr. Tang spent over ten years working for the university as a senior process engineer. There he helped develop a new electron beam lithography program and fabricated devices for Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) lab courses. Following graduation, Mr. Tang started Tang Engineering Consulting LLC, a consulting and design firm for the MEMS community in Ann Arbor. As CEO and President, he provided micro and nanofabrication design, simulation and fabrication services to multiple Fortune 500 companies, start-ups and universities, totaling over $1M in research and development.

Joerg Tewes (CEO) is responsible for the development, marketing and commercialization of the world’s first head mounted virtual retinal display technology.

Mr. Tewes came to Avegant from Logitech, where he spent several years as the Vice President and General Manager of the Digital Home Business Group, taking ownership of P&L on $100M of annual gross revenue and reporting directly to the CEO. Prior to that role he was Vice President and General Manager of Webcams, where he oversaw product marketing and development across domestic and international teams.

Venkat is currently SVP, Technology & Solutions at Nagarro, a global software and application services company. He oversees strategy and innovation for worldwide customer engagements. He also oversees R&D and the development of tools and platforms that bring disruptive solutions to the services industry. Venkat has two decades of experience in global technology management and software product engineering.

As the General Manager of TCL Research America, Dr. Haohong Wang oversees the R&D activities in North America for TCL, a global leader in consumer electronics with over 70,000 employees worldwide and ranks the 3rd in TV and the 5th in mobile phone business. Dr. Wang is a recognized leader in multimedia and communication societies, a recipient of the IEEE MMTC Distinguished Service Award, a co-author of five books, and an inventor of over 50 US patents and pending applications.

At present, he works in the Shanghai Xingzhi Education Association, an organization under the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, as the Vice Chairman. Shanghai Municipal Education Commission firmly and persistently aims to research and cultivate on the professional and well-rounded talents with practical marketing, branding, sales, customer service experience and knowledge to build the distinctive qualities and characteristics of the commission in order to serve the Shanghai city, Yangtze River Delta services, and Greater China to achieve the "China dream" and make due contributions with a mission to “Carry forward the spirit of Tao, Practicing lifelong education" in beliefs in integrity, growth of the brand, honesty, service to the broader society, and actively seeking new scientific development in the era of knowledge economy.

Possessing a deep technical knowledge of cloud architecture and operations, as CTO Mark is responsible for optimizing Redapt's private and hybrid cloud offerings. Mark continually balances the ecosystem of technology, products, services, and automation with customer requirements for scale, reliability, and performance.

Prior to joining Redapt, Mark was VP of Cloud Infrastructure Services and the first operations employee at Zynga. Mark led innovative architecture at Zynga; delivering and operating the zCloud, at the time among the largest private clouds in the world. Previously, Williams held dual roles at Support.com, Inc. as Director of IT and VP, Customer Support, where he maximized performance and productivity of the software support start up. He also held positions at Net Daemons Association as Director, Consulting Operations; Titan Client / Server Technologies at IT Systems Administrator; and Salk Institute for Biological Studies as Scientific Programmer and Analyst.

Prior to joining FYS Systems, Melonee was the ​​CEO and co-founder of Unbounded Robotics which developed the UBR-1. Before Unbounded Robotics she was a Manager of Robot Development at Willow Garage, leading a team of engineers developing next-generation robot hardware. For more than ten years, she has been developing and designing robot hardware and software. Some of her projects have included developing algorithms, libraries, and hardware for an autonomous boat, car, personal robot platforms, and battle bots. While at Willow Garage, Melonee was the co-creator with Tully Foote of the TurtleBot, a low-cost personal robot kit with open-source software. Melonee was also a ROS core team member responsible for maintaining and supporting the core drivers, community tools, and tutorials available in ROS. Melonee holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Sean's practice focuses on advising clients on their intellectual property needs (including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets) and others areas of law related to technology. He advises on developing, managing and exploiting IP portfolios. Sean handles numerous technology and IP licensing transactions and a wide variety of other types of agreements. Sean helps clients pursue infringers through litigation and licensing. His litigation experience includes matters in Federal District Courts, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and the U.S. International Trade Commission. Sean's practice involves the procurement of intellectual property rights such as patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, and the rendering of opinions and advice regarding patentability, infringement and validity issues. Sean received his J.D. in 1997, with honors, from Rutgers School of Law and his B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, College of Engineering in 1994.

Oliver Wreford is a Vice President of Product & Marketing at Pearson, he has responsibility for strategy, product and partnerships for PowerSchool, the world's leading Student Information System. Oliver has spent his career delivering enterprise technology solutions to public sector customers and he is currently working with PowerSchool customers, team members and partners to help deliver a globally connected K-12 education community.

Graduated from Nan Kai University in 1992, Mr. Wu had token the technique management responsibility in several global companies, i.e. Sun Micro-systems, AIA Everlasting, etc.. In 2003, together with several professional partners, Mr. Wu founded the Pearl-in-Palm, one of the pioneers of mobile Internet companies in China.

David Wu is a Chinese entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder and current CEO of Muhe Network Ltd., a pioneer of the Chinese online mobile game industry.

In the spring of 2010, sensing opportunity in mobile gaming, he came to Shanghai to establish Muhe Network. Muhe Network has grown from a 20 person team, to a company now employing more than 400 people and spreading out over more than 40 games. Muhe Network is now considered one of the premier developers and operators within the mobile digital entertainment industry. In March of 2013, David was recognized as "One of the Fifty Chinese Chiefs of Creativity and Innovation on the World Stage."

Derrick Xiong is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of EHang. He's in charge of the business side and his experiences include marketing, social media, PR and business development. He founded his first start-up at the age of 19 and he's always passionate about what he's doing. Derrick went to Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and received his bachelor degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Nayang Technological University in Singapore.

Danny Yang is the Co-founder of Maicoin, a bitcoin services platform with offices in Taipei and Palo Alto. Danny has worked on machine learning and data problems for over a decade, and believes that the intersection of bitcoin and big data will be increasingly more important, especially in getting mass consumer adoption of bitcoin.

As Chief Executive Officer of NeuroSky, Stanley Yang leads the strategic vision and management of the company. NeuroSky is at the forefront of body and mind monitoring analysis and its technologies are at the core of innovative, wearable health and wellness consumer products. NeuroSky makes it possible for millions of consumers to capture and quantify critical health and wellness data so that they can effectively manage their mind and body health. NeuroSky delivers uniquely adaptable chips and algorithms that offer ECG multi-function cardio monitoring, and quantitative and interpretive algorithms in a powerful integrated, adaptable and extensible solution.

Yong Yang is an pioneer of the Chinese Crowdfunding. He graduated from Financial Math Department of the Peking University. Mr. Yang is the President of Tangchuang Investment and 1898 Café, Chief Architect of JR Coffee, Chairman of Zhongguancun VC Network, Limited Partner of PKU Venture, VP of BKU Alumni Business Association. Currently, He is promoting to establish the Institute of Crowdfunding, in order to explore the business pattern for China.

Mr Yang has experience in Education, Internet, and Finance for a decade. He launch 1898 Café by Crowdfunding from PKU Alumni Association. 1898 Café is a platform for PKU entrepreneurs. He is a leader of Chinese Crowdfunding projects and continuously practice new business pattern in China.

Yi Hui holds Finance Phd from Central University of Finance and Economics. He is the founder of JR Coffee and the Secretary of Central University of Finance and Economics Alumni Association. He has 12 years experience in insurance and finance. He is the Director of Taikang Asset Management Cooperation. Previously, he worked for China Academy of Actuarial Science, Taikang Life Insurance, Axa Financial Group, and LOMA FFSI. He is an insurance broker and assessor. He get involved in a lot of startup projects, including JR Coffee, Healthlink, Central Investment, Jiamei Dental, Longjiang Insurance etc.

Taeyang Yoon is the CEO and Founder of KarFarm, an automotive platform startup based in Redwood City. KarFarm offers a cloud-based reversed-auction eCommerce platform for new cars buyers and dealers. KarFarm connects buyers with pre-qualified sales in a safe private environment.

Chen Yu is President and Cofounder of YeePay – a leading e-payment service provider in China. Chen is responsible for marketing and business development at YeePay. He has over 15 years of experience in software, Internet and eCommerce. Before founding YeePay, Chen spent 7 years at Oracle where he was responsible for Product Management, Marketing and Strategic Alliances for Oracle Middleware and Internet solutions. Chen is also an "Internet Evangelist", he uses his experience to actively promote the Internet in China. Recently Chen was an advisor for China Central Television's 10-Episode Feature Documentary "The Internet Age", in which he interviewed Vint Cerf, Jerry Yang, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and many other Internet icons. Chen received his MS from Illinois Institute of Technology and BS from Beijing University, both in Computer Science.

Frauke Zeller is Assistant Professor, in the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University in Toronto (ON), Canada. She received her PhD (Dr. phil.) from Kassel University, Germany, in 2005 in English Linguistics and Computational Philology for her research in Human-Robot Interaction. From 2005 to 2011, she was a researcher and lecturer at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, working in the Institute of Media and Communication Studies. She finished her Habilitation (highest academic degree in Germany) in 2011, working on computational methods to analyze online communities. Frauke Zeller was awarded with a range of major research grants, among them a Marie Curie Fellowship (2011-2013), which is one of Europe’s most distinguished individual research grants. It enabled her to conduct research on big data and multimodal communication analyses tools. She worked as a Marie Curie Fellow at the renowned Centre for Digital Humanities at University College London (Great Britain). She is also involved in several international research projects. Her research interests include Big Data, Human-Computer Interaction/Human-Robot Interaction, and method development for digital research analyses.

Allan Zhang has spent over 12 years pioneering research in to the detection of the most sophisticated vulnerabilities and exploits with companies like Lucent Technology, nCircle Network Security and Palo Alto Networks. He is the Founder and CEO of Trustlook, where he leads the development of the next generation of mobile security software. He has contributed to multiple patents and has a BS degree in Economics from Southeast University.

Now he is a visiting professor at Beijing Commercial Management Cadre College, Beijing Institute of Technology, Chongqing Technology and Business University and Heilongjiang University visiting professor, who presides over the National Social Science Fund "Eleventh Five-Year" plan "Theory and Practice Research of Employment-Oriented Vocational Education.

Scott is the founder of Buttonwood Capital and based in Shanghai. He has more than 20 years of investment and start-up experience and insight across a wide spectrum of industries and international businesses. Prior to founding Buttonwood, Mr. Zheng has been a series entrepreneur, having started and co-started several companies in the last 14 years, including Internet search, video streaming, instant messaging, outdoor LED media, and on-shore Liquefied Natural Gas operations.

Zhiyong Zhang graduated from Renmin University of China with Industrial Management Degree. Currently, he is the CEO& Chairman of Metairie communication technology Co. Previously, he was Vice Director of Finance Department of China metallurgical construction research institute Co; Vice General Manager of Beijing Keaogao Technology; CFO of Beijing metallurgical construction company of China. He is the Senior Economist，Senior Engineer, and Professor in China. He is also on the board of Beijing Municipal People's Congress and The Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party Beijing Municipal Party Committee

Ricardo Angel is a Managing Director at GE Energy Ventures where he leads origination for the business unit and for Energy Technology Ventures, a joint venture formed by GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPhillips focused on investing in emerging energy technology companies. GE Energy Ventures and Energy Technology Ventures seek investment opportunities across the energy value chain, including renewables, power infrastructure and oil & gas technologies.
Mr. Angel joined GE from ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures' Venture Capital group. Previous experience includes investment banking at Goldman Sachs and consulting at CNA Corporation. Mr. Angel holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School and Bachelors as well as Masters and Doctorate degrees in Engineering from the University of Illinois. He is based in San Francisco.

Scott Armanini is a Silicon Valley veteran who has held sales and business development positions at AT&T, Cisco Systems, HP Software, Microsoft (where he co-founded Avanade, a game-changing joint venture with Accenture) and RocketSpace - the world's most successful Open Innovation company - where, as employee #12, he led sales and business development, recruiting clients including Accenture, Canon, Fujitsu, LG and Samsung. In addition to serving as an advisor to Accenture's 2014 Technology Forecast and the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance Summit, Scott has served as an Instructor ("Leadership for Entrepreneurs") for UC Berkeley Extension's International Diploma Program and advises early stage, companies in transition, global brands and governments on topics including disruptive innovation, entrepreneurship, marketing and sales, and relationship acceleration and expansion.

Brad Bao currently serves as the Managing Director of Kinzon Capital
(Fosun Group), a cross-border fund that investing in early stage technology
companies in both US and China, focusing on mobile and internet related
investments. Believing in the synergy between the two largest market and
innovation of US and China, Kinzon Capital is positioned to bridge the
gap and bring them together.

Mr. William R. Baumel, also known as Bill, is a Managing Director and oversees the technology practice at RWI. Areas of expertise include Storage, Data Protection, Big Data, SaaS, Mobile, Data Management, Network Security, and Communication. He was selected as a “VC 100”, which is one of the top 100 venture capitalist based on successful investment returns, and has been named annually as a “Power Player in the Cloud” by AlwaysOn. Bill led RWI’s investment in Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), a digital optical network provider that grew to over $500 million in revenues, where RWI was one of the three largest shareholders among venture firms. His recent exits include BlueArc, a cloud storage provider acquired by Hitachi Data System, Force 10, a data center networking company acquired by Dell, and SiGe, a moile application enablement company acquired by Skywork.

Michael F. Bianco, Chairman and CEO of American Capital Markets Group, has been actively involved in corporate banking, investment banking and private equity in the United States and Asia during the past thirty-eight years. Mr. Bianco was previously Managing Director and National Partner, Corporate Financial Consulting for Arthur Andersen & Company. He has served as President & CEO of Loeb Rhoades Securities Corporation, a subsidiary of the investment banking firm, Loeb, Rhoades & Co. which was merged with Lehman Brothers.

A Venture Partner in the Menlo Park office, Ross joined Canaan Partners in 2012, and looks for investment opportunities with companies that have the capacity and desire to build a loyal and enthusiastic fan base. Ross is also an active board member for the Level Playing Field Institute, a nonprofit committed to supporting underrepresented individuals in achieving success in science, technology, engineering and math.

At the age of 15, Guo Wei went to Singapore for overseas study and started to have interest in the angel investment field. Then he went on to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in University of San Francisco majoring in entrepreneurship at the year of 2008. There, he also practiced his knowledge and started to accumulate experience while learning under the tutelage of Dave Epstein, the Partner of San Francisco Venture Capital firm Crosslink Venture Partner. He officially started to do angel investing in 2012, and has invested in 16 companies so far, three of them received VC investment afterwards.

Mr. Cha Li is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, and the Founder and Managing Partner of iStart Ventures LLC and Dragonvest Partners LLC.
Prior to founding iStart and Dragonvest, Mr. Cha Li was the CEO of Motion Poster PLC (Asia). He was also the founder and managing director of Idea Factory, a technology start-up incubator in Shanghai. Mr. Cha Li had founded and managed a number of successful start-up companies such as EastWest Creative Communications Inc, InterPro Inc. He had worked at global corporations such as Saatchi & Sattchi and ZiffDavis. Mr. Cha Li has deep knowledge and extensive hand-on skills in international entrepreneurship and venture investing. His career spans from China, US and Europe in media, telecom, technology, entertainment and investment.

With over 18 years of private equity, consulting, and technical experience, Paul oversees venture capital investments and the management of WI Harper's information technology and clean technology sectors in the U.S. Prior to joining WI Harper, Paul served as Vice President at Walden International and handled investments and the management of existing portfolio companies. He also served as Vice President at GIC Special Investment Private Ltd (Government of Singapore Investment Corporation), where he oversaw direct private equity and fund investments in the United States. Before joining GIC, Paul was a Senior Consultant with BARRA, a financial consulting company for pension funds and money management firms. He served as a member of the Board of Directors at DivX (NASDAQ:DIVX), USI Insurance Corporation (NASDAQ:USIH), LogicEase ( acquired by NYSE: CLGX) and presently holds several directorships in various technology companies. Within WI Harper, Paul is responsible for investments in Ultriva, Cnano, GCT Semiconductor and Maxic Technology.
Paul holds an M.B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Canterbury.

Diane Ding is Founder Institute China Partner and Head of Admissions from Silicon Valley headquarters. She’s in charge of Founder Institute China market development and startup founder screening globally. She also funded Angelhere, a cross border angel investment platform, now evolved into a seed stage accelerator and angel fund. Diane is also the senior director at Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA). She holds MBA degree from University of Illinois and Master degree of Computer Science form California State University Monterey Bay.

Praveen Gupta has extensive background in Corporate Business Development, Strategy, Venture Capital, General Management, and Product Development. His experience and relationships span across the Asia, US, & Europe with startups to large corporations. He is currently Vice President of Corporate Business Development at SK Telecom Americas focused on M&A, incubation, investments, strategic alliances, partnerships in the Communications, Cloud Computing, Mobile Solutions, & Semiconductor industries. Earlier, Praveen was a partner at CDIB Ventures and was involved in raising $150 M fund and made successful equity investments in early to growth stage Enterprise Software, Internet, Infrastructure, & Semiconductor companies.

David was originally hired in 2000 at Google as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their overseas business development, sales, and operations. He launched Google's first international ads, opened their offices in Korea, Greater China, Japan, Australia, and helped launch Europe and Latam. He hired the first international management teams, established Google's overseas revenue base and led several major international search ad partnerships.

Eugene Lee is an Entrepreneur In Residence at Artiman Ventures. He is a seasoned leader and entrepreneur with a track record of founding, building, growing and selling transformational companies at the intersection of people, software and networks. He is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Artiman Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund, where he is investigating and incubating "white space" opportunities. Previously, he joined Socialtext as "CEO 2.0” and member of the Board of Directors in November 2007, leading the company's growth to cash flow positive and SaaS profitability. Lee led the company to a successful exit in April 2012, when Socialtext was acquired by Bedford Funding, a $1.4 billion private equity firm.

Feng Li is actively involved in investment in education, consumer services, TMT and other high-tech related fields. In the joint of internet and finance, Mr. Li led the investments into Credit Ease, Ripple, Coin base, Baifendian and Wacai. Mr. Li once launched two start-ups, after that, he joined New Oriental Education & Technology Group, where he worked for eight years and held several core management roles, such as the core education system, sub-brand’s establishment and promotion, distant education and subsidiary products. After leaving New Oriental in early 2007, he created Miaozhen System, a renown big-data driven advertising company. Mr. Li once served at China Renaissance, where he was involved in leading many financing cases. Mr. Li received his M.S. in Chemistry from University of Rochester and BS in Chemistry from Peking University.

Alex Liang is a Venture Partner at SAIF Partners. His primary investments are in internet, mobile internet, and technology areas. Mr. Liang’s recent activities include investing US companies that have potentials in China. Prior to joining SAIF in 2011, Mr. Liang was Founder and CEO of PICA, one of the earliest mobile internet companies in China. Before that, Mr. Liang was Vice President at Asia Netcom heading strategies for its pan-Asia data network services. He also served as Vice President at 21vianet, China’s leading Internet Data Center company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Liang worked as Product Manager at iBasis, and Engineering Manager at Amnet.

Between 2010 to 2013, He is the partner of PE at ZheJiang International Business Group, responsible for PIPEs, invested in Deli, Joyson Electronics, Dilong New Material etc. He has a 60% annual investment return.

Founded HIPSON China in 2007, engaging in international sea transportation, had annual revenue of 300 million

From 2000 to 2006, he is the manager of Marketing department at Johnson Control

2010 EMBA from China Europe International Business School; currently enroll in Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business for Finance EMBA; BS of Mechanical Engineering fron Tongji University; Trainee of M&A Program at Stanford University

Dr. Yong Liu is a researcher, entrepreneur, business writer and venture capitalist. He is founder and managing partner of an early stage venture capital fund, SVTech, managed jointly by one of the largest holding companies in China. He invests in US tech startups and accelerates their growth through strong and unique strategic resources and extensive business development nextwork in both China and US.

Vincent Ma, President of Mashington Investment Group China, Founding Partner of U.S. Blue Angel Ventures (basicVC), Vice President of China Grassroots Angel (GRAIC), Founder and a member of council of China Startups Incubators Alliance (CSIA), Founder of US-China Investment Service Alliance.

Nicholas Napp is an experienced mobile executive with 22+ apps brought to market. He has over 20 years of experience in technology, product management and business development, spanning enterprise and consumer markets. Nicholas is one of the founding partners of Thingovation, an IoT consulting firm that takes product ideas from concept to manufacturing. His prior roles include technology scouting for Sony Ericsson and VP Animation at Rainbow Studios (a video game developer sold to THQ for $55MM). He has delivered projects for major corporations such as Apple, GTech, Hasbro, Sony and Microsoft and has mentored more than 50 startups. Nicholas is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Betaspring, a startup accelerator in Providence, RI. Betaspring was recently ranked in the top 15 accelerators in the USA by the MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

Preetha currently works as a Senior Manager at Sandisk Ventures. Prior to Sandisk, Preetha has held a wide variety of roles in Venture Capital, Strategy and Marketing at AMD. Preetha started her career at Intel as a Microprocessor logic design engineer.

As a role of co-founder for 18 years, Sally was responsible for marketing (both national and international), customer and supplier relationship and price negotiation. She served as CEO of WanXiang Group for developing and managing market strategy, network and activities, which including set subsidiaries in some major cities in China. Global Sources Magazine prized WanXiang as “Top 10 Independent Electronics Components distributor” in China in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Since 2009, WanXiang has extended to Finance industry. I participated with investing several Venture Capital funds and Private Equity in China.

Dr. Shen is the founder of Ufrate. He is a successful serial entrepreneur in silicon valley and founded/co-founded 7+ startups in past 10 years. Dr. Shen brings various technological innovations, business strategies and other startup experience into this incubator. He is currently serving as the board director for 5 VC funded startups. Dr. Shen received his Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University and his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University.

Spencer Tall is a Managing Director at Allegis Capital, the co-founder and General Partner with APV Technology Partners, and the co-founder of Asia Pacific Ventures. Mr. Tall serves on the boards of Allegiance, IMVU, Moki, Symplified and Tillster (formerly EMN8), and led Allegis investments in Shape Security, Synack and Area 1 Security. He served as strategic advisor to global companies including Motorola, Sony, Fujitsu, Samsung, Canon, TDK and Dacom and is fluent in Japanese.

Ying joined Kinzon Capital in 2014, bringing with her 8-years experiences in venture capital, especially in consumer internet space and healthcare. Prior to Kinzon, she served as Executive Director at NLVC since 2006. Prior to NLVC, Ying led corporate development at PeopleSupport Inc. (NASDAQ: PSPT) and spearheaded its merger and acquisition efforts. Ying’s additional past experience includes working with Boeing on a joint venture investment and business analysis at Dun & Bradstreet.

Ron Wessels currently serves as the Global Alliances lead for the SAP Startup Focus. He has served as a senior marketing and sales executive for venture capital backed startups and as a General Manager for a public company. Mr. Wessels has served on both private non-profit and for profit boards.
Mr. Wessels holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M. Div. from Fuller Seminary. He has served on both private non-profit and for profit boards.

Hing Wong is the managing director at Walden International, responsible for the investment in semiconductor, material, and clean energy technology. His successful exits include GalaxyCore, Sinosun Technology, Silergy Corp, Giga Device etc. He was named “The best investor in 2013” by Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA).

Engineering manager at Google, where he oversee development of various Google/AdMob mobile advertising products

Ping’s Work on Mobile monetization dates back to early 2008, before the advent of smartphone, and witnessed the breathtaking evolution of the mobile advertising ecosystem

Prior to Google, Ping hold positions in IBM Almaden Research Center and Microsoft Research Asia, where he conducted research around data management and distributed systems.

His research papers have received hundreds of citations and he also hold more than 60 US patents on computational advertising, location-based services as well as large-scale data management techniques.

A faithful believer of “software is eating the world”, Ping has been excited to be part of the history where the influence of technology penetrates and rewrites every aspect of human life.

Hong Xue is a partner at Cybernaut Investment Silicon Valley office. Hong has over 20 years of high-tech industry experience in enterprise software (including Mobility, Cloud Computing, Big Data,) and venture capital investment. His career includes working at large companies, SME and Start-ups with international working experiences in countries like United States, China and India. He earned an MBA with e-Commerce concentration from Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University and his B. S. EE in China.

Levin Yao, Investment Director of Tencent M&A Department. He focuses on investment in TMT sector. Prior to joining Tencent M&A in 2011, Mr. YAO worked for Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for principal investment in Greater China. Mr. YAO received his MBA from INSEAD, M.S. degree in Finance and B.S. degree in Information Management & Systems from University of International Business and Economics.

Dr. James Zhang is a co-founder and Partner at Formation 8, a $450 million Silicon Valley based venture capital fund implementing a cross border strategy of technology investment in the US and business development in Asia. Before co-founding Formation 8, James was a Managing Director of Australian Government's Renewable Energy Venture Capital (REVC) Fund, a $200 million fund dedicated to renewable energy. He was also Venture Partner at Softbank China Venture Capital, one of the most successful VCs in China with $2 billion under management. As an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures (with $3 billion under management), James co-founded BioDiscovery, a modern agriculture company. He also led Khosla Ventures’ China initiative. Before becoming a VC, James began his career as the founding scientist at Mendel Biotechnology and led its business development. As a China native, James attended the University of Science and Technology of China. He has a PhD in Genetics from the University of California Davis and has completed his post-doctoral and business training at Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Scholar Award by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Nick has been partner at JIE Capital and TJVC. Nick was a serial entrepreneur. He has been founders of a few successful startups in the Internet and software space. Recently he has been actively engaged in couple big-data companies. Early in his career, he made significant contributions to Internet standardization bodies which led to formations of some working groups in W3C and IETF.
Nick received his degrees from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, West Virginia University and Chinese Academy of Sciences in Computer Science and Business. Nick published two books, one on UNIX kernel and the other philosophy.

Tiemin Zhao is GM at Amprius USA and Venture Partner at IPV Capital. He has 19 years of R&D, manufacturing,and management experience in US high-tech industry and served in executive or senior management positions at 7 startup companies (1 IPO, 3 acquisitions). He has also been an angel investor and advised numerous young entrepreneurs and seed/early-stage technology startups.